Technical Documents
Semantic Standards for Business Agility
Modelers are increasing interested in the semantic integrity and implementation-independence of the business models that underly service-oriented architectures and object or data models used in applications. The semantic web framework offers the most mature and broadly accepted semantic modeling capabilities and the most logically clean and capable formalisms for rules available. This framework include OWL, the web ontology language and the semantic web rule language (SWRL) and its first-order logic extension (SWRL-FOL).
This presentation demonstrates an upper ontology that provides a semantic core (e.g., general purpose units, time, the calendar, numbers, entities) for OWL ontologies and the linguistic augmentation of OWL ontologies such that human language (e.g., English) sentences can be formally understood and translated into SWRL-FOL for execution by a general purpose inference engine.
The demonstration is couched in a financial services application accessed through a web browser, the behavior of which is determined by sentences using a vocabulary defined using the rooted OWL ontology.